Sentences with phrase «dramatic license»

Little dramatic license was exhibited, so there were really no surprises for the audience.

There was no need to take so much dramatic license.

With allowances for dramatic license, you take his point.

And where does the line between fact and dramatic license blur?

Affleck's film takes dramatic license with the events to focus predominantly on the CIA's involvement, in particular the work done by disguise and extraction expert Tony Mendez, whom Affleck also portrays.

While writing her 2004 obituary, her playwright son George stumbled upon his mother's classified contributions as the first female rocket scientist and reveals them here, taking dramatic license with dialog and details.

Of course, Berg took a lot of dramatic license with said character, and the real Don Billingsley sets the record straight regarding his father's bullying in the best and last featurette, Jim Bacon's «The Story of the 1988 Permian Panthers» (24 mins.).

Filmmakers have used a little dramatic license in turning the story of a Miami school bus hijacking into a made - for - television movie.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

David Scarpa's nail - biter of a screenplay — based on John Pearson's 1995 account Painfully Rich, adapted with a free dramatic license — amps up the tension with phoned - in demands and impulsive raids by knuckleheaded local police, yet it never loses the bitter, fascinating taste of imperious wealth.

Still, the lies did harden Ellsberg's resolve — he believed that revealing the truth might end the war — so I see Spielberg's condensation as acceptable dramatic license.

Of course, this is the type of fact - based film that probably would have benefited from taking more dramatic license with the material, because some of the sensational events that occur (including one character's supposed death) are presented so matter - of - factly that it sucks the fun out of the movie.

There are some liberties taken with the stories, partly because it's distilling four Gospels into one narrative but also partly because dramatic license needs to be taken to make a miniseries work.

The stories and statistics on unsolved homicides and missing persons cases on reservations are startling, even against this film's clear dramatic license.

In truth dramatic license may be tested on one occasion but such is the assurance and confidence on show elsewhere, you soon forgive this momentary lapse.

Written by Zemeckis and Christopher Browne, The Walk uses dramatic license to turn Petit's life and ultimate adventure into a kind of fairy tale — which, come to think of it, isn't so far from the truth.

That is what you expect because you've seen too many of those historical films with frank and cloying melodrama, artificial conflict, and steep dramatic license.

Despite the fact that the real life Commodus did actually fight in the the gladiatorial arena, the ending stretched credulity for me but I suppose dramatic license is commonplace in film's of this type.

This is the most charismatic role in the film (and real life), yet also the role that may have the most dramatic license taken in the film.

The procedural details of the manhunt are similarly exacting, and while there's some obvious dramatic license taken with the Watertown firefight between the Tsarnaevs and the police — and stupid Tommy for some dumb reason that never makes any sense — it's still a thrilling sequence.

• Patrick Goldstein defends his paper's perceived hit campaign against «The Hurt Locker,» calls quoted second - hand information that wasn't properly vetted «the most in - depth piece written about the film's complex mixture of questionable dramatic license and vivid authenticity.»

Yet such dramatic license is a given; more detrimental to the film's success is that it's awfully familiar stuff, offering little that's new to the tattered gangster genre.

Watching the movie, though, I'm Not There rambles from one phase of Dylan's life to another, and sometimes the movie's leaps of dramatic license delve into pure fantasy, like a section that sees him as Billy the Kid or another that envisions him a movie star.

Though the credits confess to some fictionalization, little dramatic license seems to have been taken for entertainment purposes.

He takes extreme dramatic license with two extended soliloquies: Donald Sutherland as «X» (Fletcher Prouty) and Kevin Costner as Garrison in the courtroom.

One could brush this difference off as mere dramatic license, but the movie depends completely on the alliance between Mom Maggie and Teacher Viola Davis, who is depicted as an angel of a teacher as well as a deeply loving mother.

When it comes to TV trials, dramatic license trumps law license every time.

When the Game Stands Tall is a family friendly, and, more notably, Christian - family friendly, drama inspired by true events («inspired» means liberal amounts of dramatic license, fictional characters, etc.).

Necessary Roughness is based on the experiences of psychotherapist, Dr. Donna Dannenfelser and, given some of the headlines we see in the sports pages, it almost feels like the show isn't really taking all that much dramatic license with the professional Dani / TK relationship.

David Scarpa's nail - biter of a screenplay — based on John Pearson's 1995 account Painfully Rich, adapted with a free dramatic license — amps up the tension with phoned - in demands and impulsive raids by knuckleheaded local police, yet it never loses the bitter, fascinating taste of imperious wealth: The Gettys are «from another planet,» Paul says in voiceover and the movie turns that alien remoteness into a liability.

This distortion might be waved away as dramatic license, except that it wrests the movie out of its era (a rare lapse) and, worse, sentimentalizes its themes (a case of Spielberg reverting to his worst tendencies).

The film takes dramatic license with the truth and cushions the anguish with over-emoting melodramatic music, yet the acting is deeply felt and the redemptive message of Lomax's memoir is intact.

Was Daisey justified in taking dramatic license, in spite of being on a news program rather than a stage?

Although there are some dramatic license elements of the film that are clearly meant for more engaging storytelling purposes only, Schindler's List still provides some of the most accurate and realistic portrayals of the war from the inside perspective.

While some dramatic license has been taken with the facts (the role of The Times has been downplayed and that of The Post boosted), the crux of the story remains — that for a democracy to not just survive but thrive, a free and robust press is essential.

But, in all fairness, the first is simply a matter of dramatic license, which any film would and does undertake when confronted with adapting real life, or even a novel, to the screen.

The sports - themed picture takes no dramatic license (right «down to the costumes») in bringing audiences the true - life tale of sports agent J.B. Bernstein's (played by Job Hamm)... [Read more...]

The idea is that, should the mood strike, a performer may add a beat mid-bar as though choked - up with emotion, their dramatic license with the material thus extended liberally and their performance, we are told, made immeasurably better and more real.

Written originally for the stage, Frost / Nixon is the true story - albeit with dramatic license - of Richard Nixon's first interview after resigning from the Oval Office in disgrace because of Watergate.

I admire Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren as actors, but there were dramatic licenses taken in the film which I didn't agree with.

It's almost perfunctory to mention nowadays that dramatic license is taken quite often, as is typical of sports films, so one shouldn't mistake the events of the film or the characters within it as reflective of absolute reality.

Based on a Korean graphic novel series by Hyung Min - woo, the film has taken dramatic license with its source material, changing the baddies from fallen angels to vampires.

We're saved of the devastation of a «re-imagining,» and even though some dramatic license is taken with a few plot points, the well - worn strength of the story is the film's as well.

Many of the most startling moments in «To the Bone» come from Noxon's own struggles — such as when she weighed little more than 75 pounds and worked at a McDonald's — but at the same time she eventually came to give herself dramatic license.

Ben Affleck has stated that, «Because we say that it's based on a true story, rather than this is a true story -LSB-...] we're allowed to take some dramatic license.»

It's written by Chloé [based on the star's life] but it takes a lot of dramatic license.»

Those are the parts that are true — the bulk of the movie, like many with the «based on a real story» intro, is embellished with heaps of dramatic license.